How the Grocery Tax Impacts Transportation Funding — to the Tune of $805 Million Feb 17 2022 The General Assembly is debating a repeal of Virginia’s grocery tax. But do you know how many industries and sectors benefit from the grocery tax? It funds things like education, local governments, and our transportation industry. Read More Assembly to protect localities in grocery tax repeal, but transportation funding to take a hit Feb 14 2022 Competing legislative proposals to repeal the state sales tax on groceries would commit Virginia to replacing hundreds of millions of dollars that would be lost to local governments and school divisions, but legislators are offering no protection to the state transportation fund to replace up to $250 million over two years. Read More
Assembly to protect localities in grocery tax repeal, but transportation funding to take a hit Feb 14 2022 Competing legislative proposals to repeal the state sales tax on groceries would commit Virginia to replacing hundreds of millions of dollars that would be lost to local governments and school divisions, but legislators are offering no protection to the state transportation fund to replace up to $250 million over two years. Read More
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